Hook.



No. 804,024. PATENTED NOV. 7, 1905.

l A. MILLS.

HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 28, 1903.

[Nl E/VTOR a 1% I I A; Al/amgy UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON MILLS, OF IVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TO MILLS WOVEN CARTRIDGE BELT COMPANY, OF WORCESTER,

MASSACHUSETTS.

HOOK.

Patented. Nov. '7, 1905.

Application filed December 28, I903. Serial No. 186.781.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANsoN MILLS, of the United States Army, retired, and a resident of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

The hook in which the improvement is embodied is one designed more particularly for use in connection with ammunition-belts and other articles of soldiers equipment; but it may be used in other connections.

The improvement can best be explained and understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the completed hook. Figs. 2, 3, 4 represent it in various stages of manufacture. Fig. 5 is a view of the sheet metal keeper employed to hold the hook in place. Fig. 6 is a view of the hook and its keeper attached to the end of a strap of web bing or other material.

The hook is made froma piece of cylindrical wire rod of suitable material and length, slightly rounded at one end, (the hook end,) as in Fig. 2. The rod is then bent at one end (the squared end) to form a loop (Z, as in Fig. 3. The next step is by suitable dies to fiatten this lobp until it takes the shape of a cross-bar, as in Fig. 4, composed of the parts a Z 0, all in one continuous piece, the stem of the rod being still straight. The part a is bent at right angles to the stem and is substantially one-half of the upper limb of the cross-bar. The part Z, which continues from a and is parallel with the same, extends the full length of the cross-bar, and the part c, which continues fromZ), is parallel with the latter and in axial alinement with the part a and extends up to'the stem. The parts a 0 form the upper limb of the cross-bar. The part Z; forms the lower limb of the cross-bar, and the two are squeezed closely together parallel and in contact with each other and in the plane of the stem. The next step is to bend the straight stem into hook form, as at it, Fig. 1, which completes the article. The hook thus formed is readily and economically manufactured and is of great strength.

The keeper K is made from a fiat sheetmetal blank which has a central hole It, four end holes Z, formed in half-round projections m on the two ends of the blank, two halfrounds or ears n on the portions of its side edges opposite the central hole Zn, and on each edge two flanges 0 19 between the central halfrounds n and the end half-rounds m adjacent to that edge. This blank is bent at the middle, as seen in Fig. 5, bringing the hole Z? (for the passage of the shank or stem of the hook) on the bent or folded edge of the blank, the two sides of the folded blank being parallel with one another and so folded as to bring the two pairs of end holes Z Z (for the reception of eyelets) opposite each other, and the side flanges 0 p and ears n are bent over so as to form closures at the edges of the keeper to cover and protect the side edges of the webbing.

The straight stem of the partly-completed hook in the condition shown in Fig. 4 is inserted through the hole 73 in the front end of the keeper, Fig. 5, and is then bent into hook form. The webbing W is then inserted in the open end of the keeper and is shoved forward, so as to jam the cross-bar of the hook firmly up in place against the folded front edge of the keeper, and then while held in a suitable press or between suitable jaws which press all the parts tightly together, the webbing is secured to the keeper by eyelets s, passing through the holes Z Z in the keeper.

What I claim is- 1. The described hook consisting of a rod bent to form the hook it and the cross-bar base consisting of the upper limb a, a, and the lower limb Z lying closely together parallel with each other in the plane of the shank of the hook, the sheetmetal keeper K in the folded edge of which the cross-bar of the hook is housed, provided with a hole in that edgethrough which the shank of the hook projects, and with side flanges for closing the side edges of the keeper, and the webbing W inserted in the keeper to abut against the cross-bar of the hook and eyeleted to the keeper, as set forth.

2. The described hook consisting of a rod bent to form the hook it and the cross-bar base consisting of the upper limb a, 0 and lower limb Z lying closely together parallel with each other in the plane of the shank of the hook, the sheet-metal keeper K in the folded edge of which the cross-bar of the hook is housed, provided with a hole Zt inthat edge, through which the shank of the hook projects, and with side provisions 0p n for closing the side edges of the keeper, and the webbing WV inserted in the keeper to'abut against side closures of the keeper, as hereinbefore IO the cross-bar of the hook, and eyeleted to the shown and described.

keeper as shown and described. In testimony whereof I aflix my signaturein 3. The keeper formed from a sheet-metal presence of two Witnesses.

blank having central hole 70 along the line 1 of fold of the blank, end eyelet-holes Z which ANSON MILLb' register with each other in the folded blank, Witnesses:

and side flanges 0, p and intermediate half- W. W. KEBLINGE,

rounds or ears 7% which are bent to form the W. LEE HELMS. 

